Inspired by Julie & Julia, I've embarked on a project to celebrate the Cuban kitchen - the food, the abuelas who prepared it, and the family that gathered around the table to enjoy every bite. I'm cooking my way through Nitza Villapol's Cocina al Minuto. With each recipe, I hope to inspire you to bring the joy (and sofrito smell) back into your home.

I had tried this lime juice milk curdling recipe somewhere between 2000 when I received the book as a wedding present from my suegra and 2003 before we moved into our house. I remember it being the only Cuban recipe I could ever talk about with some sort of experience.

But even though I had made this recipe before starting The Project, I actually had to make it twice during The Project in order for it to turn out properly.